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[freedom78]

I don't cry foul and try to ignore the rules when I think it violates some made up value I just recently created.

 

Not sure what this means...clarify?

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[freedom78]

That the left is completely unhinged and has no consistency on what they find offensive or wrong.  Not a peep from the media when Obama's ICE agency did raids with the same amount of numbers.  Now it's an issue and we all need to unite to defend the non-existent rights of people to illegally enter and stay in the United States.  Schumer said yesterday Sessions should recuse himself and appoint an independent investigator to investigate Flynn, but didn't say a word when Lynch was caught having a secret meeting in an airport hanger with Bill Clinton.  They fully supported Obama's use of EOs that bypassed the legislature, namely his immigration actions.  But deny that Trump can place an indefinite stay on immigration from nations that  have an incredibly high concentration of radical Islamists.  Again, they defended Obama's actions to SCOTUS.  So I'd like them to explain how Obama had the authority to fundamentally change who was legally able to stay in the United States, but Trump lack the authority to put a temporary halt on immigration from 7 nations (defined under Obama) for 90 days until he can revamp our vetting system. 

 

I take no issue with most of what you said.  I'll just point out that, as always, hypocrisy is a two way street.  Loving executive orders and then hating them is no more hypocritical than hating them before loving them.  All this tells me is that politicians of all varieties are full of shit, which is hardly a surprise. 

 

I don't take issue with the immigration order because it was done by EO.  In fact, I think it's perfectly appropriate to do so by EO.  I take issue with its substance.  On the other hand, I never supported Obama's immigration EO.  I felt it was an overreach and it struck me as, mostly, political pandering near an election, which is the worst sort of nonsense a democracy can engage in.

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Two U.S. Men Charged With Scouting Terrorist Targets

 

Two U.S. citizens are charged with scouting possible targets in New York and elsewhere for terrorist attacks by the Iranian-linked terrorist group Hezbollah, according to courts documents made public on Thursday.

 

Ali Kourani, 32, of New York, and Samer el Debek, 37, of Dearborn, Michigan, were arrested last week on weapons-related charges and multiple counts of providing material support for a terrorist organization and receiving military training from a terrorist organization, according to the documents, which were unsealed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

 

The FBI said in charging documents that no specific plot was underway but that Kourani and el Debek conducted extensive "pre-operational surveillance" to assess security vulnerabilities at the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Panama, as well as potential military and intelligence targets in New York.

 

Both men, who are naturalized U.S. citizens, appeared in court in the past week and could face life in prison if convicted, U.S. officials said.

 

Kourani was born in Lebanon and legally entered the United States in 2003, prosecutors said. He is accused of conducting surveillance of potential military and intelligence targets in New York.

 

According to the FBI, Kourani — sometimes using the alias "Jacob Lewis" — began attending Hezbollah training programs when he was 16 and was a member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, which the U.S. government says is the name Hezbollah uses for its terrorist operations.

 

The documents do not say how or when el Debek entered the United States. He is accused of traveling to Panama to scout the U.S. and Israeli embassies and the Panama Canal for security vulnerabilities.

 

According to the FBI, el Debek joined Hezbollah in 2008 and frequently traveled to Lebanon on his U.S. passport for training in making bombs, something in which the court papers say he is "highly skilled." El Debek told investigators that one of his relatives carried out the 2012 bombing of a bus station in Burgas, Bulgaria, which killed six people and injured dozens of others, according to the court papers.

 

The United States has listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization since the mid-1990s. An NBC News-Telemundo investigation in 2007 disclosed that the Iran-back militia has expanded operations with bases and extensive infrastructure across South America, from which members have easy access to the United States.

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[Its Cousin]

FBI conducts search at home of person of interest in Nashville bombing. I guess Trump is waiting to see if the guy was one of his supporters before he comments*

 

*hint- he is.

 

https://www.boston25...XHAD2GHMQ4R3OY/